[Qt-interest] Moving the native file open dialog on Windows

[Oliver Demetz]

Hi!

Up to now I have been successfully using the static method 
QFileDialog::getOpenFileName(...) to choose a file.

Now I would like to show a second widget to the user while he is 
browsing the dialog for the file. This is easy:

     PhotographingInstructionsWidget * piw = new
         PhotographingInstructionsWidget(this, Qt::Window);
     piw->show();

     QString filename = QFileDialog::getOpenFileName(NULL, "Get File");

     piw->close();

BUT:

The problem is that the file dialog is modal and thus on to of the 
information widget.
And I have no clue how to specify the position of the native file dialog!

It seems that the position of the dialog is almost random, I cant see a 
valid rule behind it.

A note: For some reason, I have to set the parent argument of the static 
method to NULL, it is a must.

What I tried is not using the static function, and instantiation a 
QFileDialog and calling exec() on this. But the resulting dialog is 
really slow and, in my oppinion, does not really fit to the MS Windows 
fool and feel. I would like to stick to the natice dialog.

Thanks for your suggestions in advance,
Oliver